Candidate: CVE-2020-10685
PublicDate: 2020-05-11 14:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10685
 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
Description:
 A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x
 before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as
 Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when
 using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script,
 unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is
 created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which
 /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only
 cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The
 system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data
 must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is
 encrypted ble.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/68433
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N [5.5 MEDIUM]


Patches_ansible:
upstream_ansible: needs-triage
precise/esm_ansible: DNE
trusty_ansible: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_ansible: needs-triage
xenial_ansible: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
bionic_ansible: needs-triage
eoan_ansible: ignored (reached end-of-life)
focal_ansible: needs-triage
groovy_ansible: not-affected (2.9.7+dfsg-1)
hirsute_ansible: not-affected (2.9.7+dfsg-1)
impish_ansible: not-affected (2.9.7+dfsg-1)
jammy_ansible: not-affected (2.9.7+dfsg-1)
devel_ansible: not-affected (2.9.7+dfsg-1)